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Variations on a MIDI overrun error. See the song story for details. |
CD: Do Mermaids Have Vaginas?
Label: AntiMI Records
Credits: Adam Pfeffer |
Story Behind the Song
This compfire song was recorded while working at Opcode Systems, Inc. testing an early version of the OMS Timer. I created a StudioVision file containing obscene amounts of random notes, at random rhythms, with random program changes, random volume changes, and random panning. It turns out that early unreleased versions of the OMS Timer had a bug that caused it to projectile barf MIDI data after resuming a paused MIDI sequence. The sequence file alone was already plenty capable of crashing StudioVision and the entire computer, but the exciting part was getting the OMS Timer to spaz-out a few times before crashing the computer. You can hear me playing over stuck notes at several points in the recording while waiting for the computer to reboot. The insane spiral-spewing MIDI runs are not only based on random song data, but also based on the computer's inconsistent interpretation of the random data. In theory, this piece can only be performed with broken software. Working software will disperse a steady, rather boring, stream of MIDI. Broken software sounds much better when it comes to interpreting certain experimental pieces. Of course the average consumer of music software would not appreciate the computer unreliably interpreting their music, that's why the software had to be fixed, and I had to quickly record the broken software before the programmers oppressed its ability to express itself within the framework of my music.
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